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I have often thought that if I simply painted a load of random shapes, colours and lines onto a canvas then made up some meaningful sounding nonsense about it I might actually make more money...
Ah, the old "modern art is rubbish" line. Thousands of visitors to Tate Modern (including myself; I'm am member in fact) would disagree with you.
OK then. Picture 2 by Martin Creed. Please explain to this philistine where exactly is the talent there. And please try to do it without heading into Pseuds Corner
It does nothing for me but leave me questioning the validity of using such rubbish to promote the Olympics, and how that is going to happen is beyond me.
"The fluidity of the brushstrokes" in the blue one, I thought they had knocked over the brush water, they can't be serious !!!
I quite like modern art, and abstracts. But this selection of crap is quite astonishing....Tripe.
The Torch
I quite like that one too. I think it's an interesting idea behind it. I have seen some very odd things at Tate Modern though.To be fair, you can't tar all modern art with the same brush!
There are some works that I'd quite like on my walls but in some cases I'd like to think that the 'artist', while appearing serious about his or her work, is really just having a good laugh.
Take this example in the Tate Modern...
Yes, it really is just a plain, ordinary, common or garden mirror screwed to the wall. I have one just like it in my bathroom but without any explanatory BS alongside.
Far from 'questioning a long-held notion of painting transcending reality' I'd be questioning the sanity of the person or persons who thought this nonsense should go on public display.
An interesting observation from someone who likes Modern Art. I think the symbol for the logo for the games is quite similar to that used in a postage stamp many years ago that was issued in Pakistan, which was about a physical deformity, which the current logo also seems to convey.
Unfortunately the term "modern art" has been dumbed down these days by the work of some of the most untalented, or are we not allowed to use such a term simply because we're seen as too thick to understand the intrinsic meaning of those works?
Got to laugh at the Bridget Riley stripey one; the caption reads ".....Riley...began to experiment with colour in 1967, the same year she began painting stripes."
Is that woman some kind of retard? 40 plus years on and she's still painting stripes!
I began painting stripes in 1972 (when I was 3), I can now just about paint a flower. Never realised I was so gifted and advanced.